Manchester City will make a new £22m bid for West Brom skipper Jonny Evans in a move that would almost DOUBLE his wages.

Our colleagues at The Mirror are today reporting that City will make a huge new bid for Evans after having an initial £18m bid rejected out of hand by Albion.

Pep Guardiola needs to add a home-grown or ‘locally-trained’ player to comply with Premier League and UEFA rules on the composition of his 25-man squad.

He is ready to offer Evans a whopping £140,000-a-week to secure the services of the Irishman.

Evans would not be a first-choice at the Etihad and is said to have thought hard about the move, given his links with Old Trafford after nine years with City's bitter rivals and the fact he is an automatic pick at the Baggies .

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The player does live close to Man City and may see it as a career move he can't turn down.

West Brom are understood to have rejected two bids from Leicester for the player this summer, before also dismissing Man City’s opening gambit.

Evans has been made skipper following Darren Fletcher’s free-agent move to Stoke earlier this summer, and boss Tony Pulis is desperate to keep him. But the Welshman knows it will be tough for West Brom to turn down an offer of £20m-plus for Evans, with City determined to land him.